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What is the meaning of yahoo ?

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Dicitonary Definition:

1.  a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans

2.  a boorish, crass, or stupid person

They way people use "yahoo" today:

It's something you exclaim when you're really happy or excited.  For example, "I just won the lottery, YAHOO!"

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Yup.  What Brooke said.

Comes from Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift.  The novel was a political satire, and Yahoos were the boorish,uneducated people who were, I believe, the enemies of the Lilliputians, another word from Swift that has made its way into the English vernacular.
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In "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, there was a place where the horses were the dominant species and something rather like humans were a degraded race. The horses called them "yahoos."
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